Lisa Korspeter

Lisa Korspeter 1948 (second from right)

Lisa Korspeter b. Twenty (born January 31, 1900 in Großörner , † October 8, 1992 in Celle ) was a German politician of the SPD .

Life and work

Lisa Zwanzig was the daughter of a director of a potash mine. She belonged to the wandering bird . After attending the Lyceum, she was trained as a kindergarten teacher and completed training as a youth and welfare worker at the Social Academy in Düsseldorf . She then worked as a child welfare worker until her marriage in 1929. So she worked as a youth welfare worker in the slums in Guben . She was involved in the German Textile Workers 'Association and was chairman of the Hanover / Bremen district committee for workers' issues . In 1928 she became a member of the SPD.

In 1929 Lisa Zwanzig married the chief newspaper editor of the Bielefeld People's Guard Wilhelm Korspeter . She moved to Bielefeld , where she sat on the city council for the SPD. She was also active in women's work in the SPD district of Bielefeld.

During the persecution in the so-called "Third Reich", Lisa Korspeter ran a grocery store.

After the Second World War , she built a women's organization in Magdeburg . When she was harassed for protesting against the forced unification of the SPD and KPD into the SED , she fled to Hanover in 1946 .

Political party

From 1928 onwards, Korspeter belonged to the SPD during the Weimar Republic . In Bielefeld she worked for the SPD in women's work.

From 1945 she participated in the reconstruction of the SPD, first in Magdeburg, later in Hanover. In 1948 she became an assessor in the district executive committee of the SPD in Hanover, where she was a member until 1966. She was also the chairwoman of the district women's committee in Hanover and was a member of the federal women's committee of the SPD in Bonn. Lisa Korspeter was one of the co-founders of the Working Group of Social Democratic Women (AsF) in the Hanover district. She also wrote essays in the information sheet Die Comossin published by the SPD women's secretary Herta Gotthelf .

MPs

Korspeter was a member of the Zone Advisory Board of the British Occupation Zone in 1947/48 and of the Economic Council of the Bizone and the City of Hanover in 1948/49 . She was a member of the German Bundestag from its first election until 1969. In 1949 and 1953 she won the direct mandate in the constituency of Celle and after that she always entered parliament via the state list of the SPD Lower Saxony. From December 14, 1967 until the end of the legislative period , she was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee on war and persecution damage, and since June 3, 1969 also chairwoman of the Bundestag committee on matters relating to displaced persons and refugees .

In addition, Korspeter was a councilor in Hanover from 1948 to 1949 . There she was a member of the Health and Hospital Committee. From 1968 to 1976 she was a member of the city council of Celle , where she lived until her death in 1968 after her husband had passed away. There she was a member of the Social Committee and the Youth Welfare Committee.

In Celle she sat on the board of the General Hospital Celle and on the board of trustees of the Protestant children's home between 1970 and 1976. She was also elected honorary president of the Federation of Central Germans.

Awards and honors

• Large Federal Cross of Merit (1965) with a star
• Honor plate of the district of Celle 1985

Lisa-Korspeter-Straße in Celle is named after her. The party house of the SPD sub-district of Celle am Großer Plan in the old town of Celle has been called the "Lisa-Korspeter-Haus" since May 1, 2011.

literature

• Gisela Notz , women in the team. Social Democrats in the Parliamentary Council and in the German Bundestag 1948/49 to 1957 , JHW ​​Dietz Nachf., Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-8012-4131-9 . (With article about Korspeter)
• Karin Ehrich, The women in the council of the state capital Hanover 1946 to 2011. Paths, goals. Successes, Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter 2011 supplement 6, published by the state capital Hanover, ISBN 978-3-7752-5981-1 , pages 85-87

Web links

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